re: NASA moon base kept under raps till after electionPosted by junkfunky on 11/9/12 at 11:57 am to asurob1

quote:Advancing man's exploration of space is the reason that a lot of the little gadgets you play with today exist.

It was a crying shame when the shuttered the shuttle program without anything to replace it. And I was pretty pissed when they killed off our return to the moon. The United States should be leading the world into the exploration of other worlds. It his hardly a waste of money...but again...narrow minded people like you will certainly not be able to understand the advantages of a robust space program.

I agree with our need to explore but do we need to keep racking up the debt right now? I know my priorities are probably all fricked up but I'm not a fan of increasing debt without even coming up with a plan to pay for it.

re: NASA moon base kept under raps till after electionPosted by SundayFunday on 11/9/12 at 11:59 am to ShoeBang

quote:This is like a family who can't afford their utilities bill going to frickin Disney Land.

Why in the good frick would they even consider doing something like this?

Simple fact is, for humanity to exist past the next 100 years. Things like this are necessary. You don't realize how close we are to drastically overpopulating this little rock we live on. We either expand/evolve or we die. Darwinism on its most grand scale.

Not yet, but we need to have a military outpost just in case. That way we can have unmanned rovers equipped with rpg's at a moment's notice in the event that Martians produce a video that is unflattering to Muhammad.

Here is a good article that gives both sides of the argument. I was mainly citing logic in that, since the population hadnt reached 1 billion until 1830 and it is 7 billion now, eventually there will be no more room(but probably resources will run out sooner) for continuing population growth.

re: NASA moon base kept under raps till after electionPosted by junkfunky on 11/9/12 at 12:13 pm to SundayFunday

quote:Here is a good article that gives both sides of the argument. I was mainly citing logic in that, since the population hadnt reached 1 billion until 1830 and it is 7 billion now, eventually there will be no more room(but probably resources will run out sooner) for continuing population growth.

I don't think population is gonna be one of the problems after the next world war.

re: NASA moon base kept under raps till after electionPosted by SundayFunday on 11/9/12 at 12:16 pm to Tayday

quote:We know more about space than we know about our oceans. We should stick to our own planet.

Can't we do both?

I mean NASA engineers probably dont know shite about the ocean and oceanographers probably dont know crap about space. So lets let everyone study what they got their PhD in and kill 2 birds with one vastly in dept economy